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HOBAR'I B. POTTEROF HILLBURN, NEW YORK.

TOILET-SOAP SERVER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 517,624, dated April 3, 1894.

Application filed February 18,1893. Serial No. 462.893. (No model.) K

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3e it known that I, HOBART B. POTTER, a cltlzen of the United States, and a resident of lllllburn, Rockland county, New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvem ents in Toilet-Soap Servers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to devices for serving soap to wash basins and consists in conl structing su ch a device with a stationary secview; Fig. 4, a section, transversely on the line 4 4, 1; 5, a part section on the line 5 5, Fig. l Flg. 6, a face view of the notched disk; Fig. 7, an inside face view of the vibrat-y ing lever; Fig.'8,a face view of the feed lever.

T he stationary section or frame A, of the device, is provided with a iange b, or otherwise suitably constructed to'permit this section to be firmly bolted toor adjacent to the s lab Xor top of a hand basin, and said section A, is provided with apassage or channel for Water, terminating in a discharge nozzle and with a -valve controlling said channel w1th an operating device C, for adjusting said valve. These parts may be constructed in any suitable manner so as to constitute pracl tically a discharge faucet of a wash basin. The section A, also constitutes in connection with a movable lever or section D, a soap receptacle and server, one of the parts having a recess or pocket w, for the soap and the other of said parts having a cutter or cutters B, of such construction that when one part orY section is moved over the other, the knife or cutter will shear off a shaving of soap which will drop into the hand of the operator or into the basin.

As shown the lever D, is pivoted at one end to the section A, and has at the outer end the receptacle m, for the soap said pocket being closedfon all sides except that which is opposite the section A, and in the pocket m, is a follower in the formy of a plate 5, which is moved automatically toward the mouth of the receptacle so as to feed the cake of soap therein outward toward the knife or knives order to impart an outward movement to the Y lever E, and the follower at each movement of the lever D, a nut l, upon a screw 6, is'arranged between guides 2, 2, upon the lever D, so as not to turn, but so as to slide outward upon the screw 6, as the latter is turned the nut bearing on thelever E, and carrying the latter with it. The screw 6, turns in the said nut andis carried bya disk '7, having notches with inclined faces r, and abrupt shoulders 8, with which engage the ends 9, of a dog 10, that is pivoted in a transverse slot or opening w, in the section A, and which is forced outward by the spring 12. Each of the lugs 9, is beveled on one face the bevels of the two legs being in opposite directions so that when the disk`7, is carried Veither downward or upward past the dog 10, one or other 0f the lugs 9, will engage one of the shoulders 8, and will turn the disk inthe direction of the arrow,

Fig. 6. As one lug will engage the shoulders S at one side of the axis of the disk when the latter is going upward and the other will engagethe shoulders at the opposite side of the axis when thedisk is carried downward, there will be a feeding motion to the nut as the lever D, passes in each direction, and the block of soap in front of the follower will be fed slightly outward at each movement of the lever D. A

The cutter or cutters, two of which are pref,- erably used, may be of-any suitable construction. As shown, there are two cutter blades 13, 14, each in the form of a spring blade secured at its inner end to the section A, and extending outward at an angle, the two blades being at opposite angles with their cutting edges projecting through openings in and beyond a face plate 15, toward which the block of soap is forced.

In order to limit the movement of the cutters outwardio regulate the depth of the out,

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a screw bolt S may pass through a slot in the cutters and be provided with an adjusting thumb screw S' as shown in Fig. 4. It therefore follows that owing to theinclination ofthe spring cutters when the block of soap is carried downward it will bear against and press in the upper cutter 13, but will engage the lower cutter 14, which will shear od" a shaving of soap and when the block is carried upward it will force in the cutter 14 and will engage the edge of the cutter 13, and another shaving will be sheared olf so that one is cut off at each movement. It will of course be evident that instead of using elastic cutters thelatt-er may be rigid and forced outward by the spring u, which may surround the bolt S.

Preferably the lever D, is provided with a hand grasp or handle 16, by which it can be readily manipulated.

In order to permit the follower to carry back to its first position after a cake of soap has been cut away, I provide the leverE, with trunnions 17, 17, which may be introduced between the lugs 18, and confined by removable pins 19, as shown in Fig. 2 thereby permitting the lever with the disk 7, and nut, to be withdrawn at anytime in order to turn the nut back to the end of the screw G. The pivot pin 2O of the lever D, may also be a screw pin or otherwise detachable.

To confine the face of the lever D, in proximity to the face plate 15, of the cutterI provide the lever D,with a hook 21,which is bent round a curved rib or projection 22, on the section A, so as to slide thereon while preventing the lever D, from being forced away from the section A.

Without limiting myself to the precise arrangement of parts shown, I claim as my invention 1. A faucet provided with awater-delivery channel and controlling valve, in combination with a movable lever or section connected with the faucet section, one having a receptacle for a block of soap and the othera cutter and means for forcingr the soap outward from said receptacle, and against the cutter, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination of the part as the lever D, having a receptacle for the soap, the follower, a lever E, pivoted to the part D, a screw carrying a nut bearing on said lever, and means for turning the screw at each movement of the lever, substantially as set forth.

3. The combination of the part A, of the pivoted lever D, follower, lever E,detachably connected with the lever D, and screw and nut, and means for turning the screw and nut, substantially as set forth.

4. The combination with the basin of a soap server consisting of a stationary section A, extending over the basin a movable section D, pivoted to one side ofthe section A,Vone section havinga cutter and the other arecep` tacle for a block of soap and means for forcing the latter outward on the movement of the movable section, substantially as set forth.

" In testimony whereof l have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HOBART B. POTTER. [n s] Witnesses:

FRED. W. SNOW, ROBERT Wonne. 

